What will Oregon’s beaches and coastal communities look like in 100 years? How will storm surge and sea level rise impact building flooding? Erosion? Beach access? How would that future change if we were to adopt different land use management policies now?...

Recently I attended a kickoff event for a new initiative. The organizers billed the new initiative as an inclusive, grassroots strategy for tackling a controversial environmental issue. Like so many issues these days, this one is indeed contentious, with different...

In this installment of “Where are they Now?” we talked with Naomi Rowden, who worked with Crag during the summer of 2009, after her second year of law school. Throughout her time at law school, Naomi had heard of Crag in numerous different contexts,...

When the Oregon Department of State Lands denied Ambre Energy’s permit application for a coal terminal near Boardman in August, Crag and its allies in the Power Past Coal coalition were thrilled. The permit would have allowed the construction of a dock in the...

This past weekend, I paddled the White Salmon River in Southwest Washington from BZ Corner, Washington all the way to its mouth where it meets the Columbia River. Until 2010, this trip was not possible without slogging across a slack reservoir and portaging around...